How to Suspend Process in Windows without Terminating

Sometimes when we are running lots of apps, your Windows tends to go slow. The Operating System doesn’t always understand end-user’s need for speed on a particular application. All it does is try to share the CPU with all the running applications, so that all (or most) of them have same priority.

What is the Result? A hungry process may eat up most the the CPU time leading other programs in disguise.

Best example would be Photoshop, Firefox (with lots of Tabs), Eclipse, any Video encoding app, antivirus etc. Or even sometimes an unwanted process starts eating most of your resources and you are not able to kill it (coz it may be a system process or un-killable antivirus).

The solution is to suspend/Pause the process till the time we want other apps to run faster and then Resume it back. In fact, this can be done fairly easy in Unix using “jobs -p” and “Ctrl + Z”.

sometimes? In windows TaskManager is the most mandatory thing 🙂killing a process doesnt freeze the computer. This solution is not for frozen apps but apps that eat more CPU without adding value. Hope that helps

sometimes? In windows TaskManager is the most mandatory thing 🙂killing a process doesnt freeze the computer. This solution is not for frozen apps but apps that eat more CPU without adding value. Hope that helps